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EDITOR IAL PAGE THE /ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St . Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at pi-.-tofflce at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1373, Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, 15 00 a year. Payable in advance. i We Long For Immortal Im perfection—-We Can’t Have It All our Joii!>i:i'zs for immortality, all our plans for immortal life are 1 <m th< hope that Divine Providence will conde scend to let ns li\- in another world as we live here. Each of ns wants to be himself in the future life, and to see his friends as lie knew them. We want to preserve individiiality forever and ever, when the stars shall have faded away and the Jays of matter ended. Rnl what is individuality except imperfection? You are dif ferent from Smith, Smith is different from Jones. But it is sim ply a diffcreim of imperfect construction. One is more foolish than another, one is more irresponsibly moved to laughter or anger that constitutes his personality. Remove our imperfections and we should all be alike—smooth off all agglomerations of matter on all sides and everything ■would be spherical. What would be the use of keeping so many of us if we were all perfect, and therefore all alike? One talks through his nose, one has a deep voice But shall kind Providence provide two sets of wings for nose talkers and chest talkers? Why not make the two into one good talker and save one pair of wings? Why not. in fact, keep just one perfect sample, and let all the rest placidly drift back to nothingness? Or. better, why not take all the goodness that there is in all the men and women that ever were and melt it all down into one cosmic human being? The raindrops, the mist and the sprays of Niagara all go back to the ocean in time. Possibly we all go back at the end to the sea of divine wisdom, whence we were sent forth to do, well or badly, our little work down here. Future punishment? We think not. One drop of wafer revives the wounded hero—another helps to give wet feet and consumption to a little child. It all depends on circumstances. Both drops go back to the ocean. There is no rule that sends the good drop to heaven and the other to boil forever and ever in a sulphur pit. Troubles beset us when we think of a future state and our reason quarrels always with our longings. We all want—in heaven to meet Voltaire with his very thin legs. But we can not believe that those skinny shanks are to be immortal. We shall miss the snuffs and the grease on Sam Johnson's collar. If an angel comes up neat and smiling and says, “Permit me to intro duce myseif 1 am the great lexicographer,” we shall say. “Tell that to some other angel. The great Samuel was dirty and wheezy, and I liked him that way.” And children. The idea of children in heaven flying about •with their little fluffy wings is fascinating. But would eternal childhood be fair to them? If a babe dies while teething, shall it remain forever toothless” How shall its mother know if it is allowed to grow up? Listen to Heine that marvelous genius of the Jewish race; Yes, y. ’ You talk of reunion in a transfigured shape. What would that be to me? 1 knew him in his old brown surtout, and so 1 would see him again Thus In -.1 it table, the salt cellar and pepper castor on either hand. \nd if the !■. pper «:i- on the right and the salt on the left hand he shifted them over I knew him in a brown surtout, and so I would see him again.” Thus he spoke of his dead father. Thus many of us think and speak of those that are gone. How foolish to hope for the preservation of what is imperfect! How important to have FAITH and to feel that reality will surpass anticipation, and that whatever IS will be the best thing for us and satisfy us utterly. A W oman’s Political Speech How Many Men Do You Know That Could Talk More Sanely and Usefully Than Jane Addams? Jane Addams. of Chicago- one of the millions of good wom en in this country hitherto disfranchised—has joined the Roose velt party because that party is pledged to fair treatment of women to woman suffrage. Those that are unintelligent will believe that women are in capable of understanding political matters, unable to discuss public questions intelligently. In order to dispel this idea we print here conspicuously Jane Addams very short address in favor of Roosevelt and in praise of his convention. It is short. It emphasizes that which is important. It proven intelligent knowledge of public affairs. How main tmn in public life do you know that are capable of making a speech • - short or as good ? Illis is J.me Addams' speech: "Measures of inilustri.il amelioration, demands for social justice, long discussed by croup n irity . mferences and economic associations, have here I>< •11 <-c>nsidi-ri ii in K'- at national convention and arc at last thrust into the stern arena of political action. "A great party ha- pledged Itself to the protection of children, to the rare of tin aged. g r , . t < m.erw< rk",| girls. to the safeguarding of burdened men. Committed to tie ■ humane undertakings, it is inevitable that such a party hould ap| ■al to women, should seek to draw upon the great reservoir of tin it moral < to rgy. so long undesired and unutilized tn prac tical politics one is the core -y f th* other, a program of human welfare, the necessity for woman's parti- >pitin. X ‘‘We ratify tins platform n 1 nh lie ausc it represents our earnest convictions and formulates our high hopes, but because it pulls upon our faculties and calls up to definin upon. We find it a prophecy that democ racy shall be actually realized until n.. group of our people- -certainly not ten million of them so badly in need of 1. issuranee shall fall to bear the responsibility' of self-government and t at no class of evils shall lie be yond redress. "The new party has become the American exponent of a world-wide movement toward juster social conditions, a movement which America, lagging behind other great n itions, has been unaccountably slow to em body in political action. "I second the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt be< ause he Is one of the few men in our public life w ho have been r< sponsive to modern movement Because of that, because the pr gram will requln a leader of invincible courage, of open mind, of democratic sympathies, one endowed with power to interpret the common man and to identity himself with the common lot, 1 heartily second the nomination.” The Atlanta Georgian Can Death by Disease Be Eliminated? // Doctors Succeed tn Finding a Specific For Cancer, the Last of Man's Greatest Maladies Will Have Been Mastered In this picture ~r- ■ laboratory as- ' jff[ sistants are shown inocu- lating a rat with V * £ cancer tissue. —i w f-f/.,. LD f wR/ •* g W »■ QJ Both of these H — 1 51 ' w sJHErrH pictures are /• < / iaWgaßH h XL.. ■■ jtoiuumiuii, imm \ ’’•ML. *23? fA the Cosmopoli tan Magazine for August. TtTT Bf * L By GARRETT P. SERVISS. IN the August number of THE COSMOPOLITA N MAGAZINE there is an article on "The Conquest of Cancer.” which is of absorbing interest, for the simple reason that it tells, tn popular lan guage, the exact truth on a subject about which there has been so much sensational exaggeration that the public mind has been perturbed without being informed upon it. The sad truth is that, at the present time, the only sure cure for cancer is the surgeon’s knife— and that is sure in only certain special cases. Rut doctors have learned to recognize cancer in its earliest stages, when it often IS CURABLE, and that Is a vast gain in Itself Moreover, experimental investi gations are now on foot which give at least the hope that a specific cure may be found for all forms of cancer. Some of the lower animals are the necessary’ victims of such experiments, and some people, who apparently love dogs more than they love men and women, make a great outcry over that fact. Such people, whose sentimentalism has gone astray, may be disregarded when the object in view is an al most immeasurable blessing io hu manity. It would probably be im possible to find anywhere men en dowed with a more sympathetic nature, and a greater desire to ban ish suffering from the world, than those very experimenters. Terrible Figures. Since, after all. selfishness is at the bottom even of the soul of the sentimentalist, some of the object ors to animal experimentation as a basis for improved medical science may hesitate in their blind opposi tion when they are informed that statistics show that one out of every fifteen men. and one out of ever.v eight women who have passed the age of 35 years is doom ed to die of some form of cancer. This is not to say that death by’ cancer is a mere lottery. It is not as if fifteen men, or eight women, shut up In a room, were required to draw from an urn containing either fourteen white balls and one black ball, or seven white and one black, with the certainty that the unfortunate who drew black must die a terrible death. The meaning cl *2, *2,111 *2, *— * *- * *- ’ Dorothy Dix IN a peculiar and piteous divorce case now pending, the sole cause that is alleged for the breaking up of a time is a woman’s nagging. The husband, a wealthy ami prominent man. testified in court that he bad left his wife because he could stand her incessant nag ging no longer. The children, a neatly grown soil and daughter, entreated the court to give them to their father be cause their mother’s nagging made life unendurable to them Neither husband nor children manifested the slightest affection for the woman She had killed‘their love by nagging The woman is pretty and good. She lived in a palace and hail all the luxuries that money could buy. She had husband and children and everything to make lite happy, and she has thrown away every thing. lost everything, by her nag ging. Not Her Fault. There is a lesson In this little story from real life that every wom an who is at the head of a family should pause and consider For this lady with the serpent's tongue Is not the only nagger "there are others, and if more husband- do not get up and desert their wives, and more children do not turn against their mothers, it is be cause of the marvelous fortitude and power of endurance that some people have It isn't the nagget s fault. She does th< Very best she can to break up her home, and make life a but den to those unfortunates whom a THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1912. Cancerous growths on a carp, a rare case, which shows that even fish are not immune to cancer. is that, on the average, out of every fifteen men and eight women past 35 years o? age one surely,possesses the seeds of cancer, which will eventually’ develop. It is as if in the room there were a fly having an unerring sense enabling it to detect the presence of the undis closed cancer. The person on whom that fly alighted would be the vic tim designed by fate. All the others might be perfectly safe be cause they' did not bear the fatal mark. Rut. according to the sta- ‘ tistics. there would in the long average surely be ONE in every such assemblage who would carry the hidden insignia. Sometimes the doctor can detect the fatal blight or the probability of its existence, but generally even he can know nothing about it until the disease visibly declares itself. Then, if instant action is taken, in some cases of external cancer he can effect a cure with the aid of the knife. The object of the spe cialists now is to find some remedy which will act upon the disease wherever it may be located. You will read in the article to which I have referred what has been done with such means as radium and the X-rays and certain chemicals. You will also find there what lias been learned about the causes of cancer, what about the means of detecting II at an early stage, when it may still be curable, and what is the nature of the hopes which the searchers for a specific cure enter tain. The man who is foremost in this search, and upon whom the ex pectant eyes of the world rest, is the German, Dr. Ehrlich, who re cently discovered a specific for an other disease which had been re garded as hopeless. Suppose that Dr. Ehrlich should succeed (as lie may do any day). cruel fate has doomed to live un der the same roof with her. When the sum of the harm that is done in the world is added up, it will be found that the nagger holds the banner record. She has driven more men to drink, more young girls into idiotic marriages, more children away from home, than all other causes combined. She is like Samson. With the jaw bone of an ass she slays her thousands. Take the woman, for instance, who nags her husband about what he shall eat, and what he shall drink, and whether lie shall smoke or not. She thinks that when she mentions these things to him a hundred times a day she is only doing her wifely duty. She doesn't realize that she i- invading his sa cred liberty and insulting his judg ment every time she reminds him that highly seasoned food is bad for his stomach, and that he’ll acquire smoker’s heart from the use of a Pipe. still less does she pet reive the effect of her nagging on her hus band. She doesn’t realize that at first he feels offended, then wor ried. then exasperated; then he be gins to duck when he sees her get ting ready to launch the old. dreary familiar arguments against him. And at last he comes to hate her with the deadly hatted that we feel for thost who subject us to petty tyrannies against which there is no defense. If a woman is reallv opposed to her husband's method of eating and drinking and smoking, she might • fight it out with him once; but after that she had better let him kill himself itixpeace, doing whet what would be the ultimate conse- . quences? The last of the major diseases that shorten human life and cause endless suffering would have been conquered. This does not mean that they would imme diately disappear, but there would be good reason to hope that they might all be eventually eliminated, so that, after a time, death would only' occur either as a result of accident or murder or of simple old age. Men would live longer and their lives would be relatively free from suffering. What It Would Mean. But would they be content even with that condition?. Not .in the least. The next effort would be still further to prolong life. Then the question would be seriously debat- / ed—as it has indeed already been debated whether death itself might not be banished. It is not in the nature of man to be content, and his Creator did not intend that he should be content. His wonder ful powers were given to him in or der that he might always seek j,o better his condition. He was not placed in the position of a Sisiphus, doomed to pass all his time in pushing a stone up hill, only to see it inevitably roll down again. He DOES GAIN something every day. His progress is slow, but yet cer tain. He was put into a world full of enemies and given the means of combating those enemies. Many of them he has already conquered, but many yet defy him. When he has mastered all of his diseases a new field for the exercise of his genius will open before him. If it did not he would WISH TO DIE, and might welcome back the dis eases as friends, for there is no happiness for human nature except in marching forward and accom plishing something. — i he wants to do, than to be forever nagging him about it. It would be ' an easier and a pleasanter death. It is also the nagging of her de voted mamma that makes many a girl marry the first man that asks her, or tempts her to go from-home to work, and that causes many a boy to leave home. The child that said, when asked his name, that he was called "Johnnie Don't" fair ly expressed the position of many unfortunate young people in their own homes. The Result. They never have a minute's peace; they never have a particle of liberty: they can never do any thing just as they like to do it. because mamma is after them with her eternal “do” or "don’t.” she badgers them about the way they sit. the way they speak, the way they stand, rhe way they do their hair, the clothes they have got on. what they eat—everything under the sun. until she stands to them for nothing else on earth but a kill joy. and their one thought, plan and determination from the time that they are old enough to think at all is to get away from her. And they do it atrthe earliest possible moment. of course, dear madam, you who read these lines will never admit that you nag. But examine your self and see if you have fallen into the habit of telling your husband and ehildri n over and over again what they should do and shouldn't do. and if you interfere in all their plans Naturally you don't call this nagging, but they do. and if you want t > keep them from hating you stop it: THE HOME PAPER Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on ~ x- • ■ An Investigation of the Causes Which ■ ?lj Lead Men and - Women Into 1 Crime - Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright. 1912. by American-Journal-Examiner. WHOEVER was begotten by pure love, And came desired and welcomed into life, Is of immaculate conception. He Whose heart is full of tenderness and truth. Who loves mankind more than he loves himself, And can not find room in his heart for hate, May -be another Christ AVe all may be The Saviours of the world, if we believe In the Divinity which dwells in us And worship it, and nail our grosser selves, Our tempers, greeds, and our unworthy aims Upon the cross. Who giveth love to all, Pays kindness for unkindness, smiles for frowns, And lends new courage to each fainting heart, And strengthens hope and scatters joy abroad, He, too, is a Redeemer, Son of God. JUST at this particular juncture several unfortunate men are being neld prisoners for the de liberate planning of the murder of a fellow being in New York. Other men implicated will no doubt be added to the list before this article appears. ■ The meanest and most despica ble motive for crime in life is at the bottom of this dreadful and ap palling act —greed for gain. Certain men desired to break the laws of the land. Certain other men were bought who violated their oaths to pro tect those laws. The law breakers were caught, and they told the tale of buying the silent co-operation of the law protectors. Then these law protectors delib erately employed professional as sassins to murder-the man who be trayed their act. Murder Not Always Result of Wild Impulse. It is a shock to many people to know there are professional assas sins in our land. Many’ good people had believed that murder was always, in these days, the result of some wild im pulse—of drunkenness, or jealousy, of anger, of self-protection or in sanity. It seems almost incredible that men who are not moved by any of these .emotions are to be found banded together ready to kill any one for a stated sum of money— and a paltry sum comparatively. Now that such men have been found and are helfi by’ the law for trial, it would help the students of eugenics to learn something of the prenatal and farly' childhood con ditions from which those men came. It would be worth while to appoint committee to go about this search for the desired information with as great care as the detectives went about the search for the criminals. There should be. indeed, such a committee, whose work is to look up the pedigree for at least two generations of every’ man and wom an who becomes a criminal Especially should the prenatal conditions be learned when there is any possibility of obtaining such data If there is a bad piece of road where vehicles are broken and hu man beings injured, the causes :: Courage :: By REGINALD LUCAS. (j F all the boons the gods pan five. This one 1 ask and ask in vain, Well satisfied if I might live My life, as it was lived, again. Its faults and failures I confess. Os cares and griefs its ample store; From evils past I shrink the less As dreading future ills the more. And yet this were the coward's part: "Go forward”—there’s our dutv clear- The humble and the contrite heart Knows not ingratitude or fear. For this were man's most shameful lot. To lie in an unhonored grave. Even those who loved him daring pot To claim for him that he was brave. which led to such accidents are in vestigated, in orSer to avoid future trouble. ■ If the causes which lead men and women into crime can be traced then there is a firmer foundation for our reformers and philanthro pists to stand upon while they seek to better the coming genera tions. Few Women Know Laws Os Prenatal Influence. Only a few women of the most progressive order today know, or, knowing, believe in, the laws of prenatal influence. Not one poor woman of the-un educated classes in a thousand has the least idea on this all-important subject. Yet a butcher’s wife, who watched the slaughter of animals before her child was born, brought forth a human monstrosity—a child crimi nal—who possessed an insatiable desire to destroy life. The child of a woman whose hus band was a miser and who com pelled her to beg or steal pennies from his pockets to satisfy her hunger was born a thief, and went through life a kleptomaniac. Innumerable cases can be cited of the immediate results of the mental influence of the mother on her unborn babe; and there is no subject of greater import for wom an to study than this. / The government would do well to set aside a certain sum of money to aid such investigations for the benefit of the science o* eugenics. And this present moment is a most appropriate one to begin these investigations. Science is doing a great deal in its effort to conserve and prolong life. World Needs a Better Order of Things. Rut it rs not so much the con tinuance of the life of individuals on earth which the world needs as a better order of beings. Every possible investigation into heredity, prenatal influence, child hood's environment and early as sociations should be made, and the information carefully classified and presented to the world for consid eration. The capital punishment of crimi nals will never reduce crime. But the proper education of men and women on what fatherhood and motherhood means will prevent the birth of criminals. -